Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-01-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

/ are WOneu.
Miners at Red Gulch, 1. T, are ad-
vertlshg for wives.
Eggs are worth 80 cents a dozen in
Pendleton, Oregon.
! -EpiZoOtic is killing large number
Of horses in western Maine.
Cock fights are becoming popular
IN the New England States
/ Mormon elders are making many
converts in eastern Mississippi.
The total vote Tor governor in
Nevada last November was H. 1892.
"A mast that bends to the gale Is an
invention CT a Connecticut citizen.
-Sleighlng has lasted nearly six
weeFs continuously at Rutland, VT.
During the past year thirty-one
murders occurred in San Francisco,
Cal.
Mustard seed valued at $780, has
been shipped from Lompoc, Cal, this
season.
The highest salaried teacher in
Brooklyn, n. Y, this year Will receive
$3.50,
1t is pred sted by Texas clergyman
hat the world will come to An end in
zen years.
The newest kind OF a thief is one in
Bellevue, o., who steals Thermometers
exclusively.
"A resident of Masillon, O., stepped
IN the point of nail Monday, and died
the next day.
"A toboggan slide nine hundred feet
.ong Is being built by the society people
Of Toledo, o.
-Ph9nix, the largest city in Arizona,
was lighted with gas Friday night for
the first time.
i, John G. Whittier makes about as
much from his apple orchard as he does
from his books.
The city of Los Angeles, Cal, has
lecided to adopt the cable system on all
its hOrse-ear lines.
"A restaurant in Waila Waila, Wash.
ington Territory, is serving new lettuce
to It's customers.
"A 3-year-old heller, recently killed
and dressed at Lakes ranch, Nevada,
weighed l, $50 pounds.
"A New Haven, Conn, man has
Drought suit for s., 900 damages against
1 widow who Tilted him.
1t cost the United States govern
ment S3S4, ,63T last year to pay the sala-
reS and mileage of senators.
-Tennessee's peanut crop this year
S worth 500, coo. The average yield
per acre Is forty-twO bushels.
Eight thousand dollars was found
in an old apron OF a venerable woman
who died at Port Pleasant, y. j.,
lately.
An aged settler OF Dexter, Me-,
aged nearly 50 years, was married 10 a
sixteen-year-Old miss of that place
lately.
"A pet monkey apparently with mai
ice prepense, hanged d dog by the neck
until he was dead, in Seabright, y. J.,
recently.
-POultry-dealers IN Seneca, y. Y.
shipped 50, 900 pounds of turkeys, ducks
and chickens to the New York Christ
mas markets.
About 100000 umbrellas are
made and sold annually III this country.
New York and Boston are the head
! quarters of the manufacturers,
The piles of old London bridge pat
down in the year 9C0 are still sound,
| the water and the blue mud of the
| Thames having preserved them.
"A dwarf, whose lgure was familiar
to the people of Newark. y. j., was
found dead in bed recently, and It IS
! believed that he was frozen TO death.
1t is estimated that over 100000
has been spent N unsuccessful attempts
TO establish newspapers in Portland,
Oregon, during the past twenty years.
"A spruce-gum dealer in Byron, Me-,
employs twenty men 10 gather gum for
him. tie expects to secure ten tons
this winter, for which he viii have
ready sale.
In Montana during the winter,
cowboys make living by killing noun
tain hons. for whcl bounty of $ per
head IS paid. The animals are ferociouS
and some are very large.
The longest tOboggan slide is
claimed for the town of Grand Forks,
Dakota. The tTeStle work is said to be
900 feet long, and the grade is - feet
in the hundred for the first 800 feet.
Rabbits (gray variety of the wild
speciesl, have caused $1,000, 900 worth
of loss and damage in Australian fields
within the past ten years, the L. 5.
Consul General at Melbourne declares.
An expert visited the Metropolitan
Theatre, New York, at its opening,
figures out that the wealth represented
in the parterre boxes was SOS, ,2jO 900,
and in the first tier boxes So. 80, ,O0O.
On apaIr of stilts (dlsO on a waser),
young man crossed the ice on the
Hudson rlver at Rhinecliffe, New York,
on Thursday, and won by making the
entire distance nearly two miles, with
out fall.
king Humhert, Of Italy, las re
ceived from the citizens of Naples an
enormous wreath OF bronze, surlnOunted
by gold star, in recognition Of his
bravery and humanity during the recent
cholera scourge in that city.
AS family man, David Wright,
colored, of Columbia City, Fla, Can
hardly be surpassed. He is the father
OF twenty-five children, most of them
NV LUg, duu Ills pltoCuL WIG ID Tic
mother of twenty-seven children, nine
teen of whom are living.
The pistol with which Gulteau shot
President Garfield is in the keeping OF
the civil authorities of the District OF
Columbia. AL the personal property
found on the aSsassin'S body at the tims
of arrest WIS cOnfScated, and is still 70
taineG by the officials.
Although Carlyle devoted all the
energies of his life to battling against
shams, 1t is noted that his old house in
Chelsea is occupied by quack doctor,
and that the tablet to his memory has
been placed on the wrong house. This
night be called the irony OF fate.
A 1ock of blackbirds SAID TO have
been three miles in length and nearly
hundred yards wide, lately passed over
Edenton bay, North Carolina. They